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Facts about Fred Frith

Occup.Composer
FromEngland
BornFebruary 17, 1949
Age75 years

Summary

Fred Frith is a famous Composer from England, he/she is 75 years old and still alive, born February 17, 1949.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Fred.

22 Famous quotes by Fred Frith

Small: One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, lik
"One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic"
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Small: Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition
"Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition"
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Small: If you write songs you have an idea how theyre going to sound
"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound"
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Small: And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with dont really tell the story Progressive, Art Rock,
"And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you"
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Small: We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Spee
"We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more"
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Small: I dont know if Im striving for anything that I can put into words
"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words"
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Small: You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technic
"You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time"
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Small: As an improviser Im now pretty comfortable with trios, so Im thinking of working up to quartets
"As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets"
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Small: We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the gr
"We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for"
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Small: The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but th
"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another"
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Small: I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated wit
"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it"
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Small: I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so ha
"I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball"
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Small: Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalog
"Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen"
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Small: Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
"Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?"
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Small: We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you dont just
"We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have"
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Small: Theres an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert
"There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert"
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Small: There are always things to examine. Whats great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them.
"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting"
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Small: Some things dont wind up sounding like youd expect, which is just as well
"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well"
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Small: Not necessarily in one concert, but theyre all there to be used if you want to use them
"Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them"
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Small: Its like learning a language you cant speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that
"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar"
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Small: I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our ze
"I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends"
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Small: I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruc
"I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with"
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